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A Ordem é (South Korean) Samba (Do Trabalhador)! 🇰🇷🇧🇷 @gabrieldamuda

‘Only in Rio’: South Korea’s ambassador to Brazil is an unlikely samba star

Lim Ki-mo first heard Brazilian music 50 years ago in his home town of Busan; now his consular crooning marks a triumph of soft power

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2 years

Meanwhile in New York… 👀

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Oh boy. Brazilian activists have projected the word “FloppyNaro” onto the Empire State Building in New York. Really.

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Sunday 3 May 2020. 7,025 dead Brazilians.

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How incredible that in just 24 hours the entire world has reconnected with Brazil. Sentiu saudades mesmo.

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Hundreds of indigenous citizens marching through Atalaia do Norte now to demand justice for Bruno and Dom

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What shameful scenes at a time of national mourning

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Why is GloboNews not covering these protests?

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“I lost my grandfather. I want justice”

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Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro decides to mark the Queen’s funeral with a speech about gender ideology, abortion and the evils of communism from his balcony in Mayfair

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“Jail Bolsonaro”: while protesters were marching in Brazil today, this apparently happened at the Tower of London

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Translate that! 😂

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I’ve just returned from the Itaquaí River where we saw bodies believed to be those of our dear friend Dom & his friend Bruno recovered from the rainforest. Devastating. An outrage. There must be justice for them, for their families and for the noble causes in which they believed.

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A Brazilian badge spotted at today’s event

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Police have to protect peaceful anti-Bolsonaro protesters as they are harangued by the president’s supporters today in London.

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Rest In Peace, amigo

Bolsonaro says ‘something wicked’ done to Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Brazil president comments on journalist and Indigenous expert’s fate amid unconfirmed claims bodies have been found in Amazon

www.theguardian.com

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Extremely worrying allegations in Brazil at the moment that the federal highway police - which has become a notoriously pro-Bolsonaro force - is making it difficult for people to vote, with roadblocks, operations etc

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Electing Bolsonaro is suicide, says man who helped elect him

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#EXCLUSIVO | Sergio Moro: “Eleger Lula ou Bolsonaro é suicídio”

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Our interview with @LulaOficial lá in today's @guardian print edition

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Had breakfast with president Lula this morning in Brasília. Story coming soon.

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Obrigado to all the Brazilian citizens, artists, politicians & influencers who are helping spread the word of our friend’s disappearance. This is the last photo Dom sent his family before going missing w/ Bruno. He loves 🇧🇷 & the Amazon and I’m certain he appreciates your support

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1 year

Never forget

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3 years

Who are these other three people and what is wrong with them?

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Roy Keane once visited Rio de Janeiro. He may never do so again 😂

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WhatsApp down. Brazilian democracy agradece.

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What an image from @g1

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Do Bolsonaro supporters not realize they have (once again) humiliated their great country on the world stage? The images of their truculent antics during the Queen's funeral have now been shared millions & millions of times on social media and seen by people all over the world

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She doesn’t tweet porn

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“Today, in Brazil, Spain is known as a country of racists.”

Spanish prosecutors investigate racist football abuse against Vinícius Júnior

Judicial sources say incident during Real Madrid’s match with Valencia is being treated as possible hate crime

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3 years

I love how Macron is standing next to one Brazilian president in this photograph while staring deep into the eyes of another

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Brazil’s president grabs a protester who called him a cowardly safado bum and tries to grab his phone 😮

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“Just look at my face: I’m fine,” Bolsonaro says, taking off his mask in front of journalists after announcing he has just tested positive for coronavirus

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A week in Brazil

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The hardest story I have ever had to write 😭

How the final journey of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira ended in tragedy

The journalist and Indigenous expert travelled upstream in Brazil’s far western Amazon region, a trip from which they did not return alive

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How many Brazilians would still be alive if these two chaps had been in charge during the pandemic?

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7 years

Today's China Daily has Steve Bannon in a red Nazi armband, leading the Titanic into the abyss

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My friend and colleague ⁦ @domphillips ⁩ has disappeared while reporting in the Brazilian Amazon with a leading indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, just days after receiving threats. Extraordinarily worrying. Please share as widely as possible.

Fears for safety of British journalist missing in Brazilian Amazon

Dom Phillips disappeared on a trip to one of the remotest corners of the Amazon days after receiving threats

www.theguardian.com

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Indigenous activists gathering now in Atalaia do Norte to demand justice for Dom and Bruno

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Total silence from the Bolsonaros after their defeat.

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3 years

Beware, Brazil

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4 years

One day, once all this is over, historians and sociologists around the world will wonder why a man dressed as a donkey was summoned on stage tonight to ask God to help Jair Bolsonaro do battle with coronavirus, as Brazil’s president listened in on the other end of the line

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Lula arrives in the Complexo do Alemão

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1 year

How nice to see so many Brazilians out on the streets wearing yellow today and have no idea who they voted for

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2 years

Luto! Justiça!

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Even in their worst nightmares, I'm not sure Brazilian diplomats will have imagined a Bolsonaro #UNGA speech so arrogant, so bile-filled and so truly calamitous for Brazil's place in the world. #MeDaPenaPorBrasil

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A VERY unfortunate subtitle gaffe going around on social media tonight. “President Jair Bolsonaro who has unfortunately taken the lives of many Brazilians”

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Brazil’s @felipeneto speaks amazing British English! The Queen would be proud! 👏🏼🇧🇷🇬🇧

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Americans may think no one is handling the coronavirus worse than President Trump. But @felipeneto says President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil is much, much worse.

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Dom on tomorrow’s @guardian front page. RIP, friend

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Not sure I have ever seen Brazilians less excited about a World Cup. Is it like this everywhere?

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I don’t think I saw a single mask-less protester at today’s march in Rio. Huge contrast with last week’s Bolsonarian demo.

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Without Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, do leaders like Trump and Bolsonaro actually exist?

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One of these newspapers gave yesterday’s protests the prominence the deserved. The other led with a story about tourism 🤦🏽‍♂️

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“I lost my brother. He was 47. So young”

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I know exactly what he means by “pintar um clima” but can’t quite think how to translate it into English. O que vocês acham?

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Ao criticar ditadura de Nicolás Maduro, Bolsonaro cita episódio com venezuelanas em Brasília. “Olhei umas menininhas, três, quatro, bonitas, arrumadinhas. Pintou um clima, voltei. ‘Posso entrar na tua casa?’ Entrei, tinha umas 15, 20 meninas. Todas venezuelanas”, relatou.

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Strong stuff from one of Brazil’s best known (and most eloquent) youtubers. Speak up now or be damned, he tells fellow influencers in a viral anti-Bolsonaro video manifesto

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“Now he tries to be a good boy by going to Queen Elizabeth’s funeral when 680,000 people died here (of Covid) waiting for a gesture of humanity that be was incapable of making”

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So very strange being here in the Amazon covering Dom and Bruno’s murders. So many of the journalists & indigenistas here knew one or both men. So many interviews have been conducted with both sides of the conversation in tears.

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"Influencers who do not speak out now are accomplices," said @felipeneto

Bolsonaro attends floating barbecue as Brazil's Covid-19 toll tops 10,000

Outcry over president’s jet-ski outing in which he dismissed coronavirus fears as neurosis

www.theguardian.com

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I was supposed to be watching @caetanoveloso play in Rio tonight. Instead, I’m Amazon-bound to join the search for our dear friend & colleague Dom Phillips & his traveling partner Bruno Pereira. We must find them both, fast! #FindDomAndBruno #OndeEstaoDomEBruno @PaulaLavigne

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As a huge coronavirus crisis looms on Brazil’s horizon Bolsonaro goes on TV to boast of his physical prowess, denounce media “hysteria”, call for schools to be reopened and gratuitously mock the kind & wise Brazilian doctor Drauzio Varella. Strong and stable leadership.

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Lula gets a hero’s reception at Portela

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Hi, I’m an English journalist who lives in Brazil and I just want the world to know I’m a teensy bit preocupado about the coming six months.

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“Where are Bruno and Dom?”

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Alô Alô Brasil: someone take away his phone, rápido

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It’s political propaganda, yes, but also basically a shopping list of facts

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In 21 years of coming to Brazil not sure I ever saw this… 😱

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Watching the news in the UK and Brazil tonight I have the impression that the UK wants to buy vaccines from almost everyone and Brazil doesn’t even want to buy vaccines from itself

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I just spoke to indigenous leader in the Javari region of Brazil. He told me there were now 25 indigenous searchers out on river looking for Dom & Bruno but v little in way of government response. "It's horrible, terrible," he said. "But we're doing all we can to find them"

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“Stay here, dude,” Bolsonaro tells Lula patronizingly. “I don’t want to be anywhere near you,” Lula replies and turns his back

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As we arrived to document the killings this was the reception we were given in El Alto. I have never experienced anything remotely like it in all my years as a correspondent.

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Brazil has finally lost its patience with Jair Bolsonaro. By faaaaar the loudest and longest pot banging protest I have heard since this whole disaster began last March. Six solid minutes of culinary, window-side rage.

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Indigenous search teams are continuing their hunt for Dom and Bruno in the Brazilian Amazon. True true heroes of such a terrible story. Without their efforts we would almost certainly still know nothing.

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Jair Bolsonaro’s son - apparently upset at foreign coverage of the Amazon fires - tonight claims foreign correspondents from papers like the Guardian or NYT “don’t go to the Amazon”. Where to start? Well, how about here: I’ve only met Eduardo once- and it was in the Amazon.

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“No tocante a minha derrota…”

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“Say what you like about Bolsonaro, one has to recognize his rare talent of choosing the most unqualified, lunatic & dangerous people for jobs. They seem to be picked for their IQ: their quotient of imbecility, inability, idiocy, incompetence & ineptitude”

'Unqualified, dangerous': the oddball officials running Bolsonaro's Brazil

While the far-right president has trashed norms the lower ranks of his administration have displayed jaw-dropping offensiveness

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Very unsettling to fly into the Amazon on a flight our friend Dom took just a few days earlier - and to see him there on the news. Where are Dom and Bruno? #FindDomAndBruno #OndeEstaoDomEBruno

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The Brazilian army has just released these pics of its mobilization to find Dom and Bruno

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4 years

Wish Brazilian politicians would stop using the word lamentável when what they mean is previsível

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So weird not being able to message our mate @domphillips on WhatsApp about the Brazilian election right now. I’d tell him I think Lula will sneak it on Sunday. He (very wisely) would be a little more cautious. What an outrage that he isn’t here to see this. Saudades, cara.

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Dezenas de jornalistas de veículos estrangeiros nesse momento batendo cabeça pra conseguir uma tradução decente pra TCHUTCHUCA

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So many tearful eyes in Brazil’s presidential palace as Lula returns to power with a poignant and historic speech. One of the most moving political occasions I have ever covered as a journalist.

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“Even if I don’t find the love of my life alive, we must find them, please”: @domphillips ’s wife Alessandra makes emotional plea for help 😭

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“‘What’s a golden shower,’ the leader of the world’s 4th largest democracy asked on Wednesday morning hours after trying to silence his carnival critics by tweeting a pornographic video he claimed was a fair representation of his country’s most important cultural institution...”

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“Quando o Bruno não voltou, falei: “Papai teve um problema muito grande no trabalho, vamos ter que esperar porque ele está com dificuldade.” Eles perguntaram: “Mas o papai vai voltar?” Falei: “Não sei, mas temos que torcer para que sim … o papai é forte.”

“Acharam que seria mais um assassinato a ser esquecido”

No dia 15 de junho, a antropóloga Beatriz Matos recebeu a informação que tanto temia: os restos mortais de seu marido, o indigenista Bruno Pereira, e do jornalista britânico Dom Phillips haviam sido...

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Lula has done it

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I believe this is what Brazilians call a volta por cima

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This palm tree fell over, refused to die, and curved right back up.

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‘A new Brazil is comming up’: now Jair Bolsonaro is president of one of the world’s most important economies, he might want to invest in a slightly better English language subtitler

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A day after tweeting sexually explicitly images to his 3.4m followers, Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro uses a Facebook live to attack Dilma Rousseff for equipping Brazilian health clinics with "inappropriate" images of the human anatomy

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Sooo many Brazilians rooting for Argentina! What the bloody hell está acontecendo?!?!

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“Personally, I feel that he is not welcome on British soil and he is not welcome at the Queen’s funeral,” said ⁦ @clareybow ⁩ a documentary-maker who was a close friend of ⁦ @domphillips ⁩

Jair Bolsonaro uses visit to London for Queen’s funeral as ‘election soapbox’

Speaking from the balcony of his ambassador’s home, Brazilian president rounds on leftists, abortion and ‘gender ideology’

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4 years

This is not journalism.

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EXCLUSIVO: ‘Podemos usar de violência’, dizem integrantes do Antifas à CNN

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Such a powerful, devastating image from one of Latin America’s top photojournalists, Domingos Peixoto, that everyone in Brazil is talking about today. Skin and bone scavengers in Rio de Janeiro, just a few minutes drive from the city’s poshest hotels.

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Heartbreaking. A man who lost his young son to Covid is forced to re-erect crosses paying tribute to the victims, after the symbolic cemetery is destroyed by supporters of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro

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"A gospel-singing Brazilian lawmaker accused of masterminding the assassination of the husband who was once her adopted son" is quite the strangest lede I have ever written

Gospel-singing Brazilian politician may be expelled from congress to face murder charges

Lawmakers seek to strip Flordelis dos Santos de Souza, accused of orchestrating ‘barbaric’ murder of her husband, of parliamentary immunity

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Can someone, pelo amor de Deus, please tell me what on earth is going to happen in Brazil in the next seven days?

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Impossible to imagine a more stunningly beautiful rendition of Brazil’s national anthem than this. Chorei!

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Tanks and armored vehicles on the streets of Brasilia this morning as an increasingly weak president battles to project strength

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More than a week ago these three young boys vanished on the outskirts of Rio. How is this story not getting more coverage?

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What the *hell* is actually going on in Brazil?

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And so the most important weekend for Brazilian politics in decades has arrived. The next 48 hours are absolutely crucial to the future of one of the world’s largest democracies.

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